The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-28

HOopeSton, ILL.,, the Steeple which had long
been home for innumerable English sparrows,
was cleaned out. The straw that the little pests
had carried into the steeple for nests amounted
to nearly enough to fill a wagon box, and it was
taken out and burned.
A YEARLING CALF worth So became the subject
of a lawsuit in Fort Worth, Tex, year ago.
The case has been tried several times and moved
from one Justices court to another until the
costs now amount to about $500 Whichever
way the case is decided it will be appealed, and
the costs go on piling up.
THE eight longest rivers in the world accord
ing to the calculations of Maj. Gen. A. Won
Tiblio, are as follows: Missouri Mississippi T. 1914
miles, Nile 4,020, Yang -tse-Kian 3,159, Amazon
3,0S3, Yenesei-Scanga 1850, Amur 1850, Congo
1883, Mackenzie 1865. The length of the Mis-
souri, Mississippi is taken from the report of
Messrs Humphreys and Abbott. Kloders esti-
mates it at 3, 65S miles.
A YOUNG New Orleans woman is preparing to
go into the housedecorating business, and this
fall will offer her services for granting wood
work, for wall and ceiling painting and for deco
rating fireplaces. This artist recently painted a
of bedroom door. The vine sprang from
the molding of the wall and clambered up the
jamb, showing delicate tendrils and clusters of
bloom on both woodwork and wall
THEY drive horses very rapidly out West. To
a reporter quite recently Col. ]. w. Dwyer of
New Mexico, said: 1--WE think nothing of
driving sixty miles day have driven a Span
out seeming to weary them. There is some
thing about the air and atmospheric conditions
that permits the lungs of animals to work just
right all the time. My ranch is thirty miles
from Senator Dorseys, and three hours is con-
sidered ample time to drive over there"
In one of the battles of the Mexican war
Lieut.. George H. Derby was wounded and the
Commander Chief, being near, rode up to the
group surrounding him, and, finding that the
injury was not dangerous, started away with
the parting salutation: "Good-day, Leftenant
Derby" 'Good-day, General Scutt," responded
the party addressed sufficiently loud for his re-
firing superior to hear. 1.-The Generals name is
not Scatt," said one of the group. Nor was
the response; land neither is my name Darby"
Col. pat DOMAIN sees great possibilities in
natural gass Hear him sling adjectives about
it: ''With a sewer-sized main run into the
National Capitol and smaller pipes into all our
State houses, court rooms city halls and edi-
torial sanctums, every shaft, and spindle and
loom, every cogwheel, trip-hammer and hand
organ, every buzz-saw, wheat corner elevator,
scissors grinder, whirligig and merry-go-round
in our peerless, four-oceanwashed empire of
liberty can be run without cost, free gratisfor-
nothing without-a-cent."
A PRIVATE LETTER from Mexico reports what
seems to have been an attempt to assassinate
the Rev. j. w. Butler, the well known Methodist
clergyman attached to the Methodist mission in
the city of Mexico. While riding recently in a
railway car bullet, apparently aimed at him,
passed through the window of the car and
would undoubtedly have struck him had he not
a moment before slightly changed his position
The same writer, who has been long resident
in Mexico, and is well qualified to express an
opinion also writes: 1T is a truth that a
Protestant missionarys life is not safe if he is
known, save in the larger cities and few other
places"
IT is SAID that NJ Pasteur has once moro modi-
fled his method of anti-rabic inoculations For
simple wounds he has returned to the first sys-
TEN of mild attenuated virus. For bites about
the face and head and severe bites about the
body more virulent medulle are used but'these
do not attain the virulence indicated by NJ Pas
teur in his last communication. The last three
deaths are: Phi. Hydram, aged Sc, bitten on
Oct. 5, and treated from the 10th to the 2lst of
the same month; died on April q of rabies
j. b. Gachet, rs years of age, bitten on April A.
treated from the 10th to the 20th and died on
May q. ]. Hayden, aged s, bitten on April 16,
treated from April % to May IS; died on May IS.
PROF. F. N CROUCH, author of kathleen
Mavouneen, tells how he has come to be elected
a Fellow of the London Society of Arts, Letters
and Sciences That society got acquainted with
him through series of articles he wrote for
THE Folio, y In which he gave his "reminiscences
of English musicians. The first thing he heard
from the society was an invitation to join it.,
and with the invitation came seconding notes
from several royal personages. After his cleo
ton he sent to the society with his acceptance
the original manuscript of many of his works
AS soon as he has finished writing his own life.
on which he has been engaged for a long time,
he will send copies of it to the society and also
TO ell members of the British royal family
He will be 81 years old next month Most of his
twenty-seven children are still living.
THE business men in London are great friends
and admirers of the Prince of Wales The
Queens absence from London is a constant sub
ject of unfavorable criticism from the city
men; they charge much of the business depres-
sion and dullness in London commercial affairs
to the character and administration of the
Queen. They say that if the Prince of Wales
could only become King London would be one
of the gayest cities in the world. There would
be one round of royal entertainments after
another, which would attract here strangers
from everywhere with plenty of money to
spend. The city men seem to regard the royal
family as a means of attracting business 10
London. The failure to have plenty of royal
entertainments IL considered by them the most
vicious feature Of bad administration
Col. PHooIAN HOWARD, the Illinois gentleman
who is the alleged recipient OF the fraudulent
letter from Jefferson Davis touching the battle
patetic printer, but he now has u frog farm near
Danville. He is large man with a plethoric
abdomen, and he usually wears an old fashioned
shad-belly coat with brass buttons He also
affects wide brimmed SLOUGH hat. He writes
good deal for the newspapers, talks great
deal in loud voice about himself, attends ali
gatherings, from funerals to national conyen-
tions, and when he has fabricated his vocal
chords with the oil of corn he can come as near
imparting vermillipn tinge to a small town as
any man of his build on the prairies His init.
mate friends speak of him as "Old Phosh" In
the days when the Granger party threatened TO
overwhelm Illinois Phoclon was great man.
The OTHER DAY working ieweler named
Simpson, in Prince Albert street, Brighton,
Eng, met with strange piece of luck at an
auction in that town. A picture Of a negro. in
an old and dilapidated frame, was put up as a
lot, and was Knocked down to him "for n
mere song" amid the ieers Of the brokers
and other attendants Of the rooms. On
the back Of the canvas, however, Mr.
Simpson had noted, when the pictures
were on view the previous day the words
Or Johnson's Servant, and his curiosity being
stimulated thereby, he referred 10 'Boswtli.S
and TO the Life OF Reynolds" when he found
that Sir Joshua had painted at least one portrait
OF John Williams the black servant who was SO
long in the employ of johnson. The STYLE of
painting struck several amateurs as rather In
the style Of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and that view
has since been confirmed by one or two experts.
VINO have given their opinion that the portait IA
either an original painting OF Reynolds. or else
aremarkably good copy POSSIBLY replica) OF
the portrait which the great nnasfqr M fnt..d